Drug drop-off events are planned next weekend at police stations in Simi Valley, Oxnard and Port Hueneme, in addition to county sheriff's stations.

Simi Valley police will be accepting expired and unused prescription medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 22 at the police station, 3901 Alamo St., authorities said. The contents of pill bottles should be emptied into a plastic bag before dropping them off. Liquids, gels and creams can stay in their original packaging, authorities said.

At the Simi Valley event, illegal drugs also will be accepted with no questions asked, police said.

Prescription drugs also can be dropped off in a box in front of the Simi Valley station's lobby each day throughout the year, officials said, but the Oct. 22 event is being publicized as part of the National Take Back Initiative.

Take-back events also are planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 22 at Ventura County Sheriff's Office stations (at the sheriff's headquarters at the Ventura County Government Center, 800 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura; 524 Sespe Ave. in Fillmore; 3701 Las Posas Road in Camarillo; 2101 E. Olsen Road in Thousand Oaks; and 610 Spring Road in Moorpark), in the Port Hueneme police station parking lot at 250 N. Ventura Road and in Oxnard in the lobby of the police station, 251 South C St., and the parking lot of the CVS at 551 S. Ventura Road.

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